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This story’s finished absent Hillary’s oppo research team handing some lucky reporter video of Obama nodding along in church to one of Rev. Jeremiah’s greatest hits, so enjoy the last few hours of it while you can. Ace is after me to link the video of Wright expounding on 9/11, as it really does need to be seen to be believed. Here you go. I don’t know what the big deal is; who among us hasn’t heard a close personal friend of 20 years’ standing wax rapturous about jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center? I was with a grade-school...

“[R]ace is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now,” saith the prophet, politely eliding the fact that he was only too happy to ignore it for 20 years when it was being belched at him from the pulpit in its most wretched form and then for another 13 months as a candidate until ABC dropped it on his plate and rubbed his face in it. Now, with his ass in a sling, suddenly it’s time for the great conversation. If any other politician tried a move this transparently cynical, to nudge the conversation away...